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Woodstock
Film poster
Directed by	Michael Wadleigh
Produced by	Bob Maurice
Editing by	Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese, Stan Warnow, Yeu-Bun Yee, Jere Huggins and Thelma Schoonmaker
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	March 26, 1970
Running time	184 min.
Language	English
Budget	$600,001 (estimated)
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Woodstock (subtitled "3 Days of Peace & Music") is a 1970 documentary on the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh and was edited by (amongst others) Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing. It received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, as well as a nomination for Best Sound. The Official Director's Cut spans 225 minutes. There is also a solo DVD release of Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. VH1 Classic occasionally airs the Director's Cut version of the documentary.

*) opening and final credits (no stage performance)
**) not in the original version, only in the directors cut

• The documentary was reportedly edited from 120 miles of footage shot at the three-day concert.
• While they don't appear in the film, or on the soundtrack, a number of other artists played at Woodstock, such as The Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Winter and Ravi Shankar played through the rain. Ironically, it was because of the Dead that Creedence doesn't appear; John Fogerty complained that the Dead jammed way past their scheduled slot, and thus most of the audience was tuned out when Creedence took the stage. Fogerty felt the band's appearance was sub-par, and asked that it not be included in the film.
• Two of the film's six editors were the future multiple-award winning director Martin Scorsese, and Scorsese's frequent film editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
• Short portions of the film are featured in the 1971 sci-fi movie The Omega Man. Charlton Heston goes to watch Woodstock in an abandoned theatre ("Good show! Held over for the third straight year.") in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. The segments shown include Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe & The Fish, and an anonymous hippie attendee whose remarks Heston mutters along with.

• The film is rated R by the MPAA for drug content, nudity, and language, even though the original festival was all-ages.

• Woodstock at the Internet Movie Database

• Dave Saunders, Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties, London, Wallflower Press 2007

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